QULIYANGUAQ – STORY QULIYANGUA’UCIIKAMKEN. – I WILL TELL YOU A STORY. Among societies without a written language, storytelling is one way to record history. People pass family accomplishments, survival techniques, and social values from generation to generation through each other rather than books. Alutiiq people often embellished stories with drawings or transformed them into […]
Rep. Kreiss-Tomkins’ resolution “hardens” POMV approach established last year JUNEAU – Representative Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins (D-Sitka) on Wednesday introduced a proposal to fully protect the Alaska Permanent Fund in the constitution. House Joint Resolution 18 would “harden” the percent-of-market-value structure established by the Legislature in 2018’s Senate Bill 26. HJR 18 limits draws from the […]
WASHINGTON — The Washington Post says it was targeted by a conservative sting operation that tried to get it to print a dramatic but phony story about Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore and a pregnant teenager. The Post broke the story about alleged sexual misconduct by Moore and his reported pursuit of teenage girls when he […]
In yesterday’s chapter we were able to read about the father of Billy Franks, the man who dedicated his life to saving the traditional life of his tribe, the Nisqually. As we saw, the same fire that ran through the veins of Billy Frank, ran through his father’s veins as well. Today, in the second […]